Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1906 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS

TUESBtf. Walter Lee went to Marion, today, to attend the State Sunday School convention. Dr. Catt, the optician, is making •extensive improvements to his residence property on River street Mrs. George Terwilliger, of south of town, went to Champaign, 111., Monday, to attend the funeral of an aunt. Miss Carrie War Fen, of Oklahoma City, arrived today for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Clark and other relatives. A rain of sufficient magnitude to keep vegetation on the jump tor a few days longer occnred here last night and this forenoon. In all there was a qnarter of an inch of rain fall. Everett Brown went to Indianap olis today, to enter in the Great American Handicap, at the national shooting tournament nofov in pro gress there. There are 243 entries for the event. The Carter Brothers’ dredge, having completed catting the Davisson lateral of the Iroquois ditch, is being loaded on the cars here for shipping to its next job, in Wisconsin. E. Y. Hanford left this forenoon, for Gettysburg, S. Dak., to look at some land, but has no immediate intention of investing. He took his little son along with him, to give him atrip. Mrs. Isaac KeubClt and children are here to spend the summer with her brother, E. 3. Rhoads. Mr. Reubelt has quit teaching and is now librarian at the state reforma tory, at Jeffersonville. Miss Frances Marshall, of Madison, Wis., arrived here last night, for a visit with her mother, Mrs. R. W. Marshall, and to attend the wedding next Saturday, of her sis ter Carolyn, to Mr. Fred Browne, of Minneapolis, Minn. Trus Woodworth, Joe O'Connor and Clyde Comer are somd fisher men also. They came back last night wiih about 50 pretty 1 good fish. One of these was a 12 pound pickerel, anQther a 6-pound chan nel cat and the others cat fish of less exalted merit.

Nothing was done Monday in the way of arguing the motion for a new trial in the McCoy case, as the defense wanted time to prepare the record. Judge Farber has a case to try at Frankfort Thursday and expects the arguments in the McCoy case will be completed by Wednesday. By the incorporation Saturday afternoon of the Indianapolis Coliseum Company all the plans for the construction of one of the largest buildings for public gatherings in the United States, to be erected at Washington and Pine streets, were practically completed. The capital stock of the company is fixed at $300,000, much of which already has been secured by Indianapolis business men.

Sheriff O’Connor and Marshal Parks werq notified by telephone from Indianapolis, last night, that an automobile had lieen stolen in that city and was thought to Be headed for Wisconsin, and like enough would make Rensselaer a stopping place. A careful search of all hotels and livery st,dries but no evidence was foun 1 that the stolen machine had wandered this way. The play Thomas a Becket vas rendered at the College Auditorium last night to a very large audienoe, by the college students, and with ad excellence of acting and a per-

’ lection of stage setting that was Nt--1 most marvelous, even with the high expectations raised by their former great successes in the production of classical plays. So enthusiastic were some of the auditors that they pronounced the production the finest theatrical performance ever *seen here. — 7- —________ The silver j.abileeof Rev. August Seifert, Reetorof St Joseph’s College held today was probably the most notable affair yet held at the college. It is being attended by the bishop, Right Rev. Herman A Herding, of Fort Way ne, and 70 visiting priests, including nearly a'l of the alpmni of the college who have been ordained to the priesthood. . A notable feature of the occasion Is the large number of young boys here to visit the college, and many of whom have brothers among the students. They came iu a special car which arrived last evening, and which started from Minster, Ohio. There were between 8Q and 90 boys in the party, including 32 from Minster, and a smallei number from various other places. The Jasper Savings and Trust Company, which is the name of the new financial institution mentioned a few days ago, is getting into business a good deal sooner than was previously expected, which was the Ist of July. In fact it is now ready to do business. Thdy have rented the Rensselaer or Han is bank rooms, which they are occupying jointly with the bank until the latter winds up its business, and will then have the sole use of the rooms. Until permanent officers are selected its business will be managed by C. G. Spitler, J. N. Leatherman and G. E. Murray, a committee selected by the stockholders. Howard Mills, assistant cashier of the Harris bank, will be the book-keeper for the new institution. Bob Atkins, who is a partner of Charley Murray’s in the Canada land he is proposing to turn over to the investors in Kellogg’s enterprise, arrived here last evening, and is reliably reported as stating that the land is of little or no value. It is said that Kellogg was the man who showed them the land which they thought they were buying but now it has been discovered that the actually deeded to them is several miles away and worth little or nothing. Mr. Atkins’ visit here is understood to be for the purpose of getting Charley to join with him in an effort to collect back the money they have paid on the land from the company which sold it to them. They have paid $2,060 on the land and owe about $5,600. Atkins bad a man ready to bny it when the discovery of the fraud was made.

WEDNESDAY. W.H. Parkison went to Crawfords ville, today, on legal business. Born to Mr. and Alva Snow, in town, a daughter, this morning. Miss Ellen Sayler returned home today from two weeks’ visit with her sister, Mrs. L. L. Daughtery, at Hammond. Ralph Sherman, of Minneapolis, Minn., arrived this afternoon to -*peud the summer with Mr. and Mrs S. C. Irwin. Mrs. Eva Visscr and Mrs. H. Mace, of Chicago, arrived today, for an extended visit with J. A. Williams and family, in Jordan township. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Murphy, of Chicago, are visiting the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows. Between here and Remington they will remain about three weeks.

Mr and Mrs. O. K. Rainier and daughter Rinda came up from La fayette, by the automobile route, yesterday, for a few days’ visit with their daughter, Mrs. Dr. Gwin. UDele Mac told a resideut of Rensselaer, in Monticello yesterday, that he might stay in that town a while, as it was “a d n sight better town than Rensselaer, anyhow.” Mr. and Mrs. A. McCoy came up from Monticello on the 9:55 train today, and the latter stopped off here tor a short stay with her brother Addison Parkison, while Mr Me

Coy went on to Chicago, and will, it is said look for apartments and they will make their home there. G-nss Phillips, the successful actor and leading man of the Spoon er Theater Company, arrived here today for a vacation of several weeks with bis - various relatives here. Since the season closed at the Bijon Theater io Brooklyn, he has filled a special engagement of t#o weeks at Lowell, mimr 1 ’■ I .' ' v Harry Knrrie has just sold to Terry McKinstry, of Illinois, 120 acres of land near Parr. The price was S2O per acre, but the price was partly in trade. There are no buildings on the land, and it ranges right along in quality with the celebrated McCoy Fair Oaks land which Mac swore was worth SSO per acre The C. J. Dean agency negotiated the sale. About fifty guests responded to the invitation of Mr. and B. Forsythe to meet their aunt Mrs. Cullenbaugh, the latter’s son and daughter and grandson, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, last night. The house was beautifully decorated in flowers. A pleasant evening was spent iu cards. The prizes, beautiful pieces of china, were carried off by Mrs. Honan and Mr. Long, and the guCSt's prize by Mrs. Cullenbaugh. Elegant refreshments were served.

From Brook comes the surpris ing bnt cheering news of a rapid increase iu the family of Dr. Aaron Wood, the dentist, formerly of onr city, and which increase if it kept on at the rate when last reported, promised to raise his numbers to the most satisfactory Rooseveltian proportions in one round. When the last reports were sent the score was one boy and one girl, the boy weighing three pounds and the girl four. They were both strong and lively in spite of their small size, and believed to have good prospects for growing up.

FHURSDAI. Born, June 18th to Mr. and Mrs. Carter Garriott, of Aix, a daughter. Mrs. Chas. Hewitt, of near Trenton, Mo., arrived today to visit her mother, Mrs. George Garland. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Gobel left today today to visit friends in Indianapolis and Lafayette, before returning to their home at Omaha. Born, Jnne 20, to the wife of Chas. Somers, in Jordan Tp. a son. June 21, to the wife of Carl Hamacher, fonr miles north of town, a daughter. The total rainfall here Tuesday and Wednesday was .45 or nearly half an inch. It will keep things growing well for another week at least.

Mr 9. Josie Watson arrived home from North Baltimore, Ohio, today, and reports that her sister, Mrs. May Fox Barker, is now believed to be on the safe road to recovery. Mrs. Michael Schneider, of Cleveland, Ohio, arrived today, on account of the continued very serious character of her mother, Mrs. Bislosky’s sickness. , All Fourth of July Committees are requesed to meet at the court house Friday evening, for their final meeting bes. re the celebratiou. A lull attendance is very important.

Walter Lee returned home from the state Sunday School Convention at Marion, this morning. He appears to have been Jasper county’s only representative, and was iecognized by a place on the committee on nominations. O. 8. Baker fell from a cherry tree at A. Leopold’s place, yesterday, and was pretty badly cut and bruised, his worst injury beiug a cut under the chin where he fell against a fence. He fell about 12 feet and was lucky not to have bet n bnrt any worse.

Mias Mary Adams, daughter of Marion I. A. dams. was operated upon in a hospital in Chicago, yes terday, for the relief of a longstanding trouble. Her father went to the hospital with her and her mother went up today. The operation was apparently very successful. Tom McCoy went to Hammond from Latayette, Wednesday, in the castody of the sheriff of course, and from there was to be taken to Mich-

igan City, either last night or this morning. Tom went by the way of the Big Fonr aud Indiana Harbor route, aud therefore got no farewell view of Rensselaer. Out at W. M. Hoover’s place three miles southwest the rains have been side-stepping him lately and last evening William got in a little private shower of his own. It did not last long nor cover a very wide scope, bnt it rained like blazes where it did raiu. There were only a few drops here at the time.

Simon Fendig, of Wheatfield and a member of the town school board, has been in town a couple of days, visiting his relatives and looking after matters connected with the erection of a new school house about to be erected in Wheatfield, and in which the township also will join. A six room brick building is proposed and with the intention of adding a high school to the school course.

A faulty construction in a sentence in our Wednesday’s item regarding the sale by Harry Kurrie of his Fair Oaks land, is likely to convey the impression that Harry was the man who swore Uncle Mac’s land near it was worth SSO per acre. It was Uncle Mac himself who did that tall swearing, and Harry was not a witness, but if he had been he would not have come within S3O of Uncle Mac’s figures. Mrs. Mont Burk, a very estimable young woman who left her husband I here last fall and returned to her parents at Crawfordsville. has brought suit there for divorce. She charges personal mistreatment and various moral transgressions. Her husband was an able clerk here in different stores for several years, bat tiually achieved an undesirable reputation for sporting proclivities of a varied character. He is now said to be at South Bend. They have a four year old girl of which the mother will retain the custody.

A request has been received to make a correction of a statement in the account of the Sigler-Fairchild wedding, of last Monday. It is stated that the young max is not actually a legally adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Sigler, and therefore, strictly speaking, having no legal right to their name. The matter of course cuts no figure in

the legality of the marriage, but is considered o’sufficient importance to request a correction by a closely interested j arty.

According to a dispatch from Bloomington, all the other charges against U. R Kellogg peuding there were to be dismissed aud he was to l>e taken to Lafayette, today, for another trial there. The charge of contempt of court agaiust G. W. Michael was heard by Judge Wilsou and it also was dismissed.

There was much trouble in locat iug any of the relatives of Edward Pryo l *, the brilliant student whose sad and sudden death threw such a gloom over the commencement and jubilee exercises at Bt. Joseph’s college, but finally his sister, Miss Jeanne Pryor, at 1801, Filbert Bt., Philadelphia, was reached by telegraph and by her directions the corpse was shipped on the 2:04 train this afternoon, to Oliver H. Biir, an undertaker of that city. Miss Pryor had lately changed her place of residence, which caused the difficulty in reaching her by telegraph. A guard of honor from Company M accompanied the corpse to the depot.

Mrs. Ida May McClintock, of north of the railroad, and a lady who has beeu in the lime-light of publicity on divers times and occasions of recent years, has brought suit for a divorce from her husband, William H. alias Bill. They were married Dec. 22, 188». and separated Feb. 2«th, 1904, at which time the lengthy and long-suffer iug Bill lit out for unknown climes, and presumably was so glad to makts a get away that he is still going. This total abandonement is the ouly grounds alleged for the divorce, nor does the brief and business like complaint expatiate at a 1 ah'ng the usual “true and devoted a ife” line.

In our previous item regarding the sale oy 11. R. Kurrie of 120 acres of laud uear Fair Oaks, the other Important fact was omitted that he had iu the same deal ac qiiired from Mr. McKinstry the former Prior Roweu farm, 31 miles northwest of town, for which he paid SBO per acre. Stilt another real estate deal Mr. Kurrie has lately consummated was with 0. G. Spitlcr, whereby he becomes the

owner of Mr. Spider’s one fourth interest in the State Bank bnilding, trading him lor it a one third interest in 320 acres of land in Walker, and 140 in Milroy. The fourth interest in the bank was valued at $6,000. This would make the-'- entire building worth $24,000, or $4,000 more than it was bought for nearly two years, bat the increase in price represents only just about what has been expended on the building in the way of improvements, since it was bought Carter Brothers shipped oat their steam dredge today, for Wells, Minn., where their next contract is. They, as before stated were the contractors for the Davisson lateral ,of the 1 roquols diteh. For most of the waythey plowed along at a profitable rate of speed, but finally they got into a sandy stretch of about two miles, and through this the progress was so slow that the profits of the job were knocked galley west. They stated before they left that above all expenses they were about SI,OOO to the good when they left here, but by the time the the dredge was transported to Minnesota and set up again and a reasonable allowance made for breakage and wear- and tear there would be practically nothing left.

Make your headquarters at Murr iy’s Big Department Store July 4. If you kuew the value of Cham berlain’s Salve you would nevert wish to be without it. Here are some of the diseases for which it is especialy valuable: sore nipples, chapped hands, burns, frost bites, chilblains, chronic sore eyes, itching piles, tetter, salt rheum aud eczema. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by B. F. Fendig. Persons having coupons from Racket Store purchases must remember to bring them iu by July 11th, as the big gift of the SIOO worth of premiums will be made ou July 12th. These-gift articles are now on display in the racket Store window. Don’t put off your purchases now as it may mean a due premium for joa. !T If your stomach troubles you do uot conclude that there is no cure, for a great many have been permanently cured by Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. (Jet a free sample at B. F. Fendig's drug store and give them a trial. They also cure constipation and biliousness.